The first thing anyone stepping into a glass studio immediately picks up on is the heat -glass is cooked to around 1,300 degrees in roaring gas furnaces so it's a good job I have Okra Glass's Dean Hopkins on hand to guide me through the making of my own paperweight without melting my fingerprints off in the process.

16 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest glass paperweight -- a luminous orb of kaleidoscopic landscapes and underwater worlds encapsulated in glass -- was unveiled today at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.

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